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The Post in Which I Confess Again My Love of Sharpies & Probably Ruffle Some...
Today is Hoshana Rabba, the last day of Sukkot, the Jewish Festival of Booths. In keeping with the more lenient final days of the holiday, my family has been trekking all over Southern California on...
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In case you need to feel validated for writing literary fiction, science will...
I’m not usually the type to post an hour before Shabbos starts, but this news item (first heard this morning during the break between some Mozart and some Corelli on KUSC) is just too wonderful to...
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How to optimize your Goodreads “To-Read” list
A few weeks back, I posted about how we select the books we want to read now, next and never. On a related theme, I just spent an hour culling unwanted books from my Goodreads “To-Read” list. Because...
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What? No love triangle? How books for Jewish teens fit into current YA trends
If you ask observant Jewish teens here in the U.S. whether they overall prefer Jewish books or secular ones, most of them will tell you secular books (trust me, I write for teens, so I’ve asked). Sad,...
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Reading is for everyone, even those with no bookshelf
In The L.A. Times, I just read a touching article by YA author Amy Goldman Koss about her efforts to offer reading material to the homeless. Her program is in a Glendale, California homeless shelter,...
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You’ve got to be a reader to raise a reader: My take on recent research on...
Common Sense Media recently issued a report about kids and teens and their reading habits. The four principal findings (I’m going to quote CSN directly) were these: Reading rates have dropped...
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